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A Holyoke police cruiser drives past a shrine to Keila Davila, killed in a car crash on Main Street on Feb. 15, 2013. The driver, Michael Malloy, pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide while under the influence of alcohol on April 10, 2014.
(Greg Saulmon / The Republican)

SPRINGFIELD — Michael Malloy, 25, pleaded guilty Thursday to motor vehicle homicide while under the influence of alcohol in connection with a Holyoke crash that took the life of his passenger, Keila Davila.

Davila, 32, of Holyoke, was killed in the Feb. 15, 2013, 1:30 a.m. one-car crash on Main Street.

Malloy, of Holyoke, also pleaded guilty to driving a motor vehicle with a revoked license.

He was sentenced by Hampden Superior Court Judge Edward J. McDonough to 2½ years in the Hampden County Correctional Center in Ludlow with 18 months to be served and the rest suspended with three years probation.

He has 419 days credit toward the sentence for time served while awaiting trial.

As a condition of his probation he must have no drugs or alcohol, be subject to random testing for those substances and have substance abuse counseling or any other counseling determined by the Probation Department.

At the time of the crash, police said Holyoke officers were in a patrol car parked on Main Street near Marcotte Ford when they saw a car drive past them at a high rate of speed. Before they could pursue, the car appeared to skid on some ice and then go out of control.

The car slammed into a telephone pole in the area of 1025 Main St.

Both Malloy and a third person who was in the car had been treated and released from a hospital after the crash.